How many times in your life did you know exactly what you SHOULD do and yet, because of pressure from somewhere or someone else, you did not choose to do the right thing? In the text today, Pilate knows Jesus is innocent. His wife had suffered greatly in a dream about Jesus’ innocence and begs Pilate to have nothing to do with the execution of the innocent Jesus.
However, the pressure was too great for Pilate to do the right thing. How can we, in our lives, finally choose to do the right thing even under the great pressures of this world?